From Dr. David Healy’s blog: “Samizdat has just been graced with Gene Larkin’s Seeking Soteria accompanied by Bill James fabulous artwork (graced is the best word). For reasons that will become clear, the title of this post picks up on the last post Unsafe Safety.
Gene can be heard talking about Soteria with colleagues on a Mad in America Soteria Webinar. In the near future Katinka Newman will be hosting him on her podcast. Here are some reviews and further leads below.
Through vivid storytelling, Larkin traces his journey from a Catholic working-class upbringing in the Midwest, through disillusionment and self-discovery in Brazil, to the heart of a groundbreaking experiment in healing schizophrenia without medication. What emerges is not just a personal narrative, but a call for trust, presence, and radical empathy in the face of madness. Seeking Soteria is a powerful testimony to what’s possible when we choose trust over fear, being over fixing, and humanity over systems.”
